I own a very rare euphorbia virosa from South Africa. It looks like a cactus but it’s not. I treat virosa with kid gloves and grow it separately from the rest of my plants. Just brushing across the ...

(This week Succulentophile gives way to an article by Peter Bangayan.) The genus Euphorbia is just one of 300 genera belonging to the family Euphorbiaceae. Euphorbias generally have small, ...

Dr. Herman Schwartz, an oncologist who spent years working with children dying of leukemia, sought a weekend antidote to the emotional stress of his vocation. He found it through cultivating the ...

The pencil tree — sometimes called pencil cactus, though it’s unrelated to cactuses – is the world’s most common succulent Euphorbia. According to Fred Dortort, author of ‘’Succulent Plants of the ...

The genus Euphorbia is a large one, with a worldwide distribution. The plants in it are extremely diverse, ranging from tiny garden weeds to trees. quite a few of them are succulent. Some of the ...

Walnut Creek’s Ruth Bancroft is a national authority on drought-resistant gardening. Twice a month, she and her staff share their knowledge with readers. Q: In answer to the question about ...

Houseplants often come to mind when you think of growing succulents. But many of these massive options grow several feet tall and make a statement outdoors.

Flowering succulents offer all the beauty of any other succulent, except the icing on the cake of growing them is their ...

The genus Euphorbia is just one of 300 genera belonging to the family Euphorbiaceae. Euphorbias generally have small insignificant flowers and most exude a milky sap, which in most plants are highly ...